Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-14

Western Union in the undisputed monop-
oily in so great and vital a public service
IS the telegraph, will not be re-
viewed with either content or
resignation by the public. The
distrust of mir. Gould snd his associates,
and the suspicion that attaches to their
methods and practices are too profound
and too well rooted in the public mind to
admit OF such men being accepted as
trustees of great public service. We
should not be prepared to entrust Mr..
Gould and his colleagues with the
system OF our country. It would imply
and yet his administration of the tele-
graphs are likely to be much more preju-
dical to public interest than his admins
tration OF the postal system could posi-
bly, be. 1t is long lane that
has no turning, but ii may as
well be understood now as later, that the
government OF the United States shall not
acquire the telegraphs OF the country,
and that no Vaccinations Of Mr. Gould
and no association of individuals, public
or private, Will ever blsckmaiI and coeEce
the people OF this country into consent
ing that the Western Union shall be uu-
loaded upon the government, and there
will be other independent telegrsphs too.
THE SLEEPING CAR SERVICE, TOO.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8.-General Fl. Potter,
vice-president of the Pullman Car Com
pany, said to-day he would not be sur
prised to see the Baltimore and Ohio
sleeping-car service next in the market.
That was the talk he heard, but he did
not know whether the Pullman Company
would be the buyers.
THE ONLY REMEDY.
CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 8.-The Journal
this evening says, editorially: "Tne sp-
parent fact that the sale of the Baltimore
and Ohio Telegraph to Jay Gould has
been cossummated, is only stated to ex-
cite the gravest apprehension in regard
to the money power, and that one man
possesses the telegraphs Of the country
conveying intelligence regarding every
transaction in business, every act of gov
eminent, every move rent in politics,
every important personal and domestic
relation. With telegrsphic keyboard in
Jay Gould's office he will have his finger
on every pulsation CT trade, of finance, OF
politics, of official action and of domestic
life. He who shall own the telegraphs of
the country Can advance or depress prices
by which thousands or millions may be
ruined in an hour, he may control the
government itself. His evil or unclean
presence may be felt in every home.
Possibly one man might not abuse this
stupendous grasp on the vitals of the
country, but other men would, and
it is too great danger to
foresee with compIacency. It Is
evident that If competition and its results
are to be excluded from the private ad-
ministrati0n of such great public ser
vice as the telegraph, the government
must intervene for the protection Of the
people, but the United States should not
buy existing lines. Telegraph lines could
DE established to every point reached by
the Western Union, over every
railway and post-road for one
tenth part of the nominal value
Of Jay Gould's combination. a telegraph
office could be placed IN every i'm
portant postoffice and at every railway
in the country, for sum of money
that would not sensibIy reduce the sur
plus in the United States treasury. The
work should be undertaken st once IN
less monopoly removes and keeps it's
greedy and oppressive hands of from the
existing lines.